Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks...

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.But the story of how we discov ...  Show more

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, provides a deep dive into the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute: logic, memory, and power.And walks through the economics of labs, hyperscalers, foundries, and fab equipment manufacturers.Learned a ton about every single level of the st ...  Show more

What if the key to unlocking AI's full potential lies not just in algorithms or compute, but in data? 

In this episode, a16z General Partner David George sits down with Alex Wang, founder and CEO of Scale AI, to discuss the crucial role of "frontier data" in advancing ar ...

Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the future.

From the thermodynamic roots of effective accelerationism (E/acc) to the cultural cycles of optimism and fear around new technolo ...

Episode 10: Are closed-source or open-source AI models the future of artificial intelligence? Nathan Lands ( https://x.com/mreflow) and Matt Wolfe ( https://x.com/NathanLands) delve into this question with guest Matthew Berman ( https://x.com/MatthewBerman), a serial entrepreneur an ...  Show more

What does Rich Sutton’s "Bitter Lesson" reveal about the decisions Tesla is making in its pursuit of autonomy?

In this episode, we dive into Tesla’s recent "We, Robot" event, where they unveiled bold plans for the unsupervised full-self-driving Cybercab, Robovan, and Opt ...